wallenpaupackhslibrary - Social Studies

News and The Decades

Food Timeline Food History Index
Google Archive Historical Archive Search
Google Timeline News and Information
New York Times Times Topics
Photography and Historical Events PBS: American Photography: A Century of Images
Time Magazine Online Archive 1923 to present
Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes Discovery Education

Presentation Tools

Online Books

Nonfiction Books Related to Economics (use advanced search and select full view) Google Books
Nonfiction Books Related to Philosophy (use advanced search and select full view) Google Books
Nonfiction Books Related to Political Science (use advanced search and select full view) Google Books
Anti-slavery Literature (all forms from children's books to podcasts) Antislavery Literature Project--Arizona State University
Philosophy Collection (canonical texts to humor) Iowa State University EServer

Civil War and Reconstruction

Civil War: Battlefields, Maps, Biographies...Civil War Trust
Equal Rights and the Civil War NARA
Suffrage and the American Ideal NARA
Amistad Case NARA
Fugitive From Labor Cases NARA
Rights and Power: The Politics of Reconstruction Digital History
Race-based legislation in the North PBS
Africans in America PBS
Forgotten Heroes of Freedom The Atlantic
Slave Narratives recorded as a WPA project Index of Narratives
Slavery in the Western Hemisphere Coral Gables Senior High School
African American Women Duke University Special Collections
Women Suffrage Cyber Exhibit NWHM
Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement and Its Leaders (1830's-1920's) NWHM
African American Women and Suffrage NWHM
Images of 19th Century African Americans NYPL
American Women's Rights Manifesto (1948) Declaration of Sentiments
Library of Congress Reform Efforts American Women Rare Book and Special Collections
Anti-Semitism JWA Primary Sources and Lesson Plans
Anti-Semitism JWA Racial Discrimination
National Women's Party Digital Collection Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture University of Virginia
Racial Satire and the Civil War University of Virginia
Images and Artifacts The Authentic History Center
Slaves and the Courts Library of Congress
Young Adult Literature and Civil War Civil War Through Children's Books
Free State of California and Slavery The California Underground Railroad

Genealogy

Go West, Young Man or There's Gold In Them Thar Hills

Children and the Westward Movement Digital History
Oregon's Pioneer Families (Primary Source Emigrant Narratives and Biographies) End of the Oregon Trail
California Gold: Eyewitness to the First Find San Francisco Virtual Museum
Alvin Coffey--African American '49er and Black California Pioneer San Francisco Virtual Museum
Chinese and the Gold Rush San Francisco Virtual Museum
California Daguerreotypes The Dauerreian Society Oakland Gallery
Pioneer Women and the Gold Rush San Francisco Virtual Museum
Gold Rush Digital Collection Denver Library
Western Fur Trade Library of Fur Trade Historical Source Documents
New Perspectives on the West PBS
California: First Person Narratives California, As I Saw It
All About the Gold Rush ISU
Art of the Gold Rush Oakland Museum
Multimedia Lecture Series: The African American West University of Washington Television Series

Presidential Information

Backgrounds, election data, critical events, interesting/noteworthy details Internet Public Library POTUS
American President: An OnLine Reference Source University of Virginia
Campaign Ads, Historical Events, Core Values Michigan State University

(photographs and videos examining how our core values have been used during campaigns and historical events)

Comprehensive Presidential Gateway (incredible subject-organized site) CB Presidential Research Services

States Rights vs. Federal Powers

Separation of Powers (1929-1945) NARA
Constitution Workshop NARA
Beyond Face Value (Money: States Rights vs. Federal Powers) U.S. Civil War Project

Supreme Court Resources and Notable Court Proceedings